Editing Roy Scheider (section)

===Amateur boxing===
Between 1946 and 1949, Scheider boxed as an amateur in New Jersey.<ref name="boxing-scoop1">{{cite web |work=Boxing-scoop.com |url=http://www.boxing-scoop.com/show_boxer.php?boxer_ID=12096 |title=Roy Scheider |access-date=February 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105200926/http://www.boxing-scoop.com/show_boxer.php?boxer_ID=12096 |archive-date=January 5, 2019}}</ref> Scheider said in a television interview in the 1980s that he took up boxing to lose weight. He said he had no desire to fight, but that his trainer, Georgie Ward, encouraged him to compete.{{sfn|Kachmar|2002|p=118}} In his second bout, at the 1946 Diamond Gloves Tournament ([[Golden Gloves]]), Scheider suffered a broken nose and lost by [[technical knockout]] in two rounds to Myron Greenberg. He went on to post an 11–1 (six knockouts) record,<ref name="boxing-scoop1"/> reversing his defeat by Greenberg in the process.<ref name="boxing-scoop1"/> <!-- This source lists a total of 12 fights and classes every one of them as an "unverified match -->

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! '''Amateur boxing record: Roy Scheider''' (unverified)<ref name="boxing-scoop1"/>
|- style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:100%;"
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Result
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Opponent
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Method
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Date
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Round
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Time
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Event
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Location
!style="border-style:none none solid solid; background:#e3e3e3;"|Notes
|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Earl Garrett
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|March 17, 1949
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|[[Elizabeth, New Jersey]]
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Ted LaScalza
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|March 12, 1949
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|[[Jersey City, New Jersey]]
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Peter Read
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|February 17, 1949
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|[[Elizabeth, New Jersey]]
|Scheider suffers nose injury; drops out of tournament.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Nick Welling
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|July 20, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
||Elizabeth, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Jerry Gould
|align='left'|KO 
|align='left'|July 2, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
||Orange, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Alfonse D'Amore
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|March 2, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|Orange, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Peter Read
|align='left'|TKO
|align='left'|February 21, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|Elizabeth, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Phillip Duncan
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|February 19, 1948
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|
|Elizabeth, New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Stewart Murphy
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|April 1, 1947
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|0:16
|align='left'|Golden Gloves 
|New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Myron Greenberg
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|January 10, 1947
| style="text-align:center;"|1
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|Golden Gloves 
|New Jersey
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|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{no2}}Loss
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Myron Greenberg
|align='left'|TKO
|align='left'|January 11, 1946
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|Golden Gloves 
|New Jersey
|Scheider's nose was broken.
|-
| style="text-align:center;" {{Yes2}}Win
|align='left'|{{flagicon|USA}} Frank Brayden
|align='left'|KO
|align='left'|January 9, 1946
| style="text-align:center;"|2
| style="text-align:center;"|
|align='left'|Golden Gloves 
|New Jersey
|
|}